I've read that back in its time the movie got a somewhat mixed reception, due in part to how gruesome and violent some s
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OctoberFox — 9 years ago(December 29, 2016 08:28 PM)
Same. It came out when I was nine, the gore was pretty high for this kind of movie, some of it even freaked my mom out. The part where
the slave driver gets sucked into the machine
made her scream (just a little) and try to hide my eyes.
There were way more gory movies at the time that were pretty shocking. Two years earlier The Thing had come out, and that was the stuff of legends (especially to kids). -
Rvrgm — 9 years ago(November 25, 2016 06:50 AM)
I'm not sure if anyone has actually answered your original question - I didn't see it in theaters as my mom thought it would be too scary for me, but I did see it on its original VHS release.. the heart scene had been so hyped up that by the time I got to it, it really didn't bother me that much.. it wasn't nearly as "bad" as I had imagined.
The scene that really bothered me (still to this day) is the Thuggee guard getting crushed in the rock crusher .. I don't know why but it just seems a very cruel bit, and the way it's played for humor especially - like we should smile at a man dying such a horrible death, even if he was beating children. It doesn't play well in an otherwise cartoony movie. -
Karl Aksel — 9 years ago(November 29, 2016 11:09 AM)
The scene that really bothered me (still to this day) is the Thuggee guard getting crushed in the rock crusher .. I don't know why but it just seems a very cruel bit, and the way it's played for humor especially - like we should smile at a man dying such a horrible death
What? That scene wasn't played for humour at all - the exact opposite, in fact. We see the thuggee plead for his life, we see Indy actually trying to help him, and we see Willy turning her face away in horror as the man dies - where is the humour? There is no humour at all in that death.
It doesn't play well in an otherwise cartoony movie.
I can agree with that sentiment, but I always liked that death for
not
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lars_fv — 9 years ago(December 01, 2016 12:36 AM)
Thank you so much for answering. I also watched this movie as a kid, but that was 1992 or 93 - way after it was released in theatres.
I know what you mean about the thugee - the fact that he's begging for his life makes it all more difficult to watch. But as someone has already said, I don't think it was played for humor, but all the opposite. Temple of Doom just has some truely gruesome moments.
The bridge scene also got me taken aback with those crocodiles. It may not be graphic, but seeing those clothes getting ripped off and hearing those screams spurred my child imagination in the worst possible way and yet, I remember enjoying it at the same time (hey, those are
the bad ones!
)
Still, nothing surpasses the climax scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark. Temple of Doom could have made me cringe as a kid, but the nazi face melting just gave me nightmares. -
seveer37 — 9 years ago(December 17, 2016 07:24 PM)
Well I wasn't born yet. But my uncle told me him and my granddad went after loving the first one. But they walked out after the infamous heart scene. My parents loved Indiana Jones but would never let me watch Temple of Doom. Eventually I saw it and now I think its probably my personal favorite.
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PhilistinePictures — 9 years ago(December 30, 2016 03:27 PM)
As a kid I actually considered Raiders to be more violent. It gets a free pass because a lot of the violence (besides the finale of course) is non-supernatural, like the fistfights on the flying wing plane and the intense truck chase just after it.
Temple of Doom seems worse than it is because a lot of the violence is committed during occult acts. But there's still a lot of humour elsewhere in the film.
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fjk1138-731-161881 — 9 years ago(January 03, 2017 05:35 PM)
People probably don't realize that this film, along with the original Gremlins, lead to the PG-13 rating classification being developed because of the scenes with the shishkabob to the chest in Club Obi Wan and the heart being removed during the sacrifice scene.
That being said, I remember hearing about it back in the day and thought they were making a big deal out of nothing. I was 12 at the time and it never bothered me one bit. I was more annoyed with all of Willie's endless screamingJesus H Christ.
I remember leaving the theater after Jurassic Park in 1993 and seeing really little kids being freaked out about it in the lobby. I'll go out on a limb and guess that none of them will ever go on record saying the film made them do bad things or otherwise ruined their lives.
All it takes is a few people and a little bit of media to blow anything out of proportion. Imagine Temple of Doom in the modern internet age